Richard C Lindberg: 3 books
Whiskey Breakfast
My Swedish Family, My American Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
Chicago in the 1920s: Clark Street was the city’s last Swedetown, a narrow corridor of weather-beaten storefronts, coal yards, and taverns running along the north side of the city and the locus of Swedish community life in Chicago during the first half of the twentieth century. It represented a way...
Gangland Chicago
Criminality and Lawlessness in the Windy City
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
This engrossing tale of gangs and organized criminality begins in the frontier saloons situated in the marshy flats of Chicago, the future world class city of Mid-continent. Gangland Chicago recounts the era of parlor gambling, commercialized vice districts continuing through the bloody Prohibition...
Shattered Sense of Innocence
The 1955 Murders of Three Chicago Children
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
In October 1955, three Chicago boys were found murdered, their bodies naked and dumped in a ditch in Robinson Woods on the city’s Northwest Side. A community and a nation were shocked. In a time when such crimes against children were rare, the public was transfixed as local television stations aired...